
3rd December 2009 at 7:12 pm
I had the privilege of being amongst a select group invited to Fuller’s brewery to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their Fine Ale Club.
The event included a guided tasting with their Master Brewer and we got to sample some great beers.
They are all 10/10 so I have ranked them in the order of my preference.
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5th November 2009 at 2:55 pm
I previously ran my Wordpress blog on an OS X client operating system. I’ve just bought a new Mac Mini running Snow Leopard Server to replace the old Mac Mini.
In theory it should be a lot more straight forward on the Server version of the operating system as everything you need is pre-installed. In practice, once you know what you need to do, it’s quite simple – but finding these things out is not so simple. In the hope this will help others here is my 4 step plan for getting Snow Leopard Server ready for Wordpress.

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11th July 2009 at 6:16 pm
Day 8 – Time to move on to the new base for the second week of my Holiday. I’m relocating from south west Wales to the north west – half way there I took a major diversion to visit Powis Castle.

Given it’s location – it not somewhere I could normally visit so it was an opportunity not to be missed.
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6th July 2009 at 5:12 pm
First stop of the day – Kidwelly Castle – apparently I visited it as a child but It’s too long ago for me to remember.

11th June 2009 at 6:56 pm
I was sad to learn of the demise of one of the UK’s longest running computer magazines.
I started reading it not long after it’s launch, and before I owned my first computer. I learnt a lot from it and it helped me over the years as a bought my various computers. It even carried program listings for my Sinclair ZX-81 and QL. I still have a wall-chart they gave away that shows all the BASIC commands and their syntax for all the popular operation systems of the time (around 1983) which allowed you to take a listing published for, say, the BBC micro and workout how to convert it to run on a Sinclair Spectrum.
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5th May 2009 at 5:35 pm
The day started off cold and dull as I headed off to the nearby Trevarno Estate for a walk around the grounds and gardens,

Before long the sun managed to break though and I headed to Porthleven for Lunch in the Harbourside Inn.
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5th March 2009 at 7:38 pm
I can’t believe the gall of these people – I have just been visited by one of these low lives. I wouldn’t have answered the door to him but my neighbour had already let him into the communal hallway. The conversation was something like this.
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